Australian history put through the looking glass by Aboriginal artists Judy Watson and Yhonnie Scarce in new exhibition

There are certain works of art that are impossible to ignore, that have a magnetic pull that can be felt from anywhere in a gallery.

Cloud Chamber — a monumental sculpture made from 1,000 delicate glass yams suspended from the ceiling — is one of those works.

Currently, the sculpture sits in front of a large window onto the lush green hills outside Victoria’s TarraWarra Museum of Art, but as artist Yhonnie Scarce says: “When you bring glass together and en masse … they move with the light and they create their own landscapes.”

“I think it’s a beautiful way to draw people in and tell them a story because they are so mesmerised by the colour.”

The glass yams of Cloud Chamber have been hung to form the shape of a mushroom cloud —…